English poem
Ii
by Thomas Hardy
Who now remembers gay Cremorne, And all its jaunty jills, And those wild whirling figures born Of Jullien’s grand quadrilles? With hats on head and morning coats There footed to his prancing notes Our partner-girls and we; And the gas-jets winked, and the lustres clinked, And the platform throbbed as with arms enlinked We moved to the minstrelsy.